Identify dog by image
what-dog.net
what-dog.net
* Bad Dog Match - Album on Imgur || http://imgur.com/a/v8jin
Only got 1 picture right... (but it couldn't identify this same dog in other pictures).
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But really it's setting out to do something stupid. Dogs are just dogs, this concept of breed... it's not a great way to identify them.
We took some wolves, bred them down to get gentle and obedient pets... then started getting silly about wanting dogs that were tiny or dogs that were big or dogs with brown spots... and really that's all the "breeds" are is us saying, "That's a dog with a red nose and pointy ears."
But once that dog has puppies with another dog, say one with brown nose and floppy ears, the puppies are anyone's guess. They're back to just being domesticated wolves again -- mutts.
My "Cattle Dog" is way too small, she's mixed with something else. She's only 30 pounds... The DNA test said that my "Pointer" was "Pit Bull" and "Grey Hound" -- which, if you accept "Pit Bull" as a breed, is roughly what "Pointers" were made from -- and the tool sort of got some of the traits right.
Correct -
http://imgur.com/8YTVFnd - ish
http://imgur.com/iUOYWP8 - ish
Just humorously bad -
http://imgur.com/Tep32aA (relative size of dog in shot = chihuahua)
Already well-known, but for anybody who hasn't seen them and is interested in playing with this sort of thing on the cheap, Microsoft have free (rate limited) rest APIs available if you want to have a mooch...
I haven't tested it on dogs, but it is fun to use on human faces with kids (might be fun at parties, too)